574 Quotes by Doris Lessing

People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

It's very interesting what you don't care about.

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.